Jaina Biology

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Jaina Biology
that the existence (existentiality, etc. ( general character) and hardness, etc. (particular character ) are found in the elements at all times in which they are found. 30
Now Haribhadra Sūri refutes Bhūtacaitanyavāda in this way that consciousness exists in elements as force (sakti), for this reason it is not perceptible, but consciousness existing in elements as force cannot be said to be non-existing in elements.31
This force (sakti) and consciousness are either non-different by all means from each other or different by all means from each other. If they are non-different, then this force becomes consciousness and if they are different, consciousness should be related with something else.32
Again, the point of non-manifestation of cetanā (consciousness ) does not seem to be logical, because there is no other entity (Vastu ), covering consciousness and it is for this reason that the number of realities will go against the doctrine of the Materialists on the admission of the existence of such an entity.33
Haribhadra Suri further advances the argument to refute the contention of the Materialists that this thing is directly proved that the element has got the nature of these two qualities or characters - hardness and non-livingness and when consciousness is not of the nature of these two characters (i. e., cannot exist with these two ), then how can it be accepted that it was born out of elements ? 34
If consciousness does not exist in individual (i. e. uncombined elements, then it cannot exist in the combined elements just as (like that) oil cannot exist in sand particle. And if consciousness exists in the combined elements, then it should exist also in individual elements35 and so on.
30. Yadiyam bhūtadharmah syāt pratyekam teşu sarvada /
upalabhyeta sattvädikathinatvādayo yathā || Ibid., v. 32. 31. Saktirūpeṇa să teșu sadā to nopalabhyate /
Na ca tenapi rūpeṇa satya satyeva cenna tat // Ibid., v. 33. 32. Sakticetana yoraikyam nādātvam vā'tha sarvathā /
Aikye sä сetanaiveti nānätve anyasya sa yutah // Ibid,, v. 34. 33. Anabhivyaktirapyasyā nyāyato nopapadyate /
Abftirna yadanyena tattvasankhyāvirodhataḥ / Ibid. V. 35. 34. Kāțhinyābodharūpāņi bhūtānyadhyakşasiddhitah /
Ceçanā tu na tadrupā sã khtham tatphalam bhavet // Ibid., v. 43. 35. Pratyekamasati teșu na syad reņutailavat /
sati cedupalabhyeta bhinnarūpegu sarvadā // Ibid., v. 44